Cattywampus said:
You're speaking with the benefit of hindsight here. How am I supposed to determine that before I know who I'm looking for?
While in theory there may be some way to deduce the minimum specific set of tags required beforehand, the reality is that this is a present search pain point for me that did not previously exist. I struggled finding Pinoko for similar reasons. What benefit are we getting from this additional friction?
Well then I don't actually understand your example scenario. Since you added the notes to that post, it must be that you knew what the character looked like, just not their name, which means you definitely knew where to start. Which means, presumably, you started with blue_archive green_hair, then added hood, then added fur trim, at which point, you have a search consisting of 11 posts, three of which are solo pics of the character you're looking for. How does bangs actually help at this point? Yet again, every post in that search should be tagged bangs, the only reason addng it to the search did anything is because some posts were incorrectly missing it.
So then, if you had an appearance to work with, why are you now suggesting that not to be the case? Alternatively, since all of the characters were already tagged, you could've just gone down the tag list, annotating characters as you identified their appearances. No multi-tag searching needed.
This is ignoring your assertions regarding the frequency of bangs. Whatever broad definition of bangs you are using in your statements is not one that I share, or anyone else I know for that matter.
I am using the literal definition that everyone uses. Hair that covers the forehead. That is what bangs are. That is the definition we were using before the tag was deprecated. If you're trying to say that's wrong, because the tag wasn't applied to 99% of posts like it should've been, that's because it was a shit tag that no one cared about except for lazy padding. What you don't seem to be understanding, is that if bangs were actually used as it was intended, it would be useless, because it would be almost everywhere.